[seabass-labrax]

I think that would be a bit simplistic - a burglar who specifically wants your personal digital secrets could put a hidden camera on your ceiling, a bug between your PC and USB keyboard, or just hold you hostage for it! Having a safe is pretty useful, but is neither a guarantee of security nor strictly necessary.

Having a firearm only works as protection if (A) you are present and armed 24/7 to protect your safe, (B) you are actually willing to shoot and (C) capable of doing so better than your assailant.

In a business context, if the company is large enough, it might well be worth hiring day-and-night security guards and heavy steel safes. But for the average PC user, the security can be improved much more effectively with simple improvements like creating passwords with 'diceware' or using separate accounts for financial tasks.

[vorpalhex]

Almost no data breaches are targeted at a single user.

The value of your personal info individually is $1? Maybe $4?

If you can hit someone who has 100k records, hey that's a solid payday.

But no thief is gonna go break into a safe, risk being shot by an angry homeowner, or kick off targeted attacks over.. $4. Even your flatscreen tv is worth more and is MUCH easier to steal.

Almost all adversaries don't care about a specific target. They want an easy target. A safe + upset well armed owner is not an easy target.